Reform is right to take on the civil service blob
Last week Reform UK scandalised Whitehall. If they take power, they said, they would take a hard look at the…
The EU’s honours list is a sham
The European Union now has its very own honours list, grandly named the European Order of Merit – with gongs…
Don’t blame the ECHR for the migrant phone debacle
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020…
Banning drill music from court would be a mistake
You have to watch the House of Lords carefully these days. Whenever a Bill on some fairly general subject, like…
Palestine Action and the limits of jury justice
Five out of six Palestine Action protesters on trial in relation to a break-in at the Elbit Systems factory in…
Juries from home would be more trouble than they’re worth
Just as a cash-strapped administration looks for ways of streamlining justice by curbing jury trials, by a nice coincidence academic…
How not to fix British art
Another day, another opinion on what’s wrong with the arts. This week we’ve got a report, ‘Class Ceiling’, by Manchester…
Farage’s defection deadline could make a Tory-Reform pact more likely
Did you read the big news about Reform? No, not its scooping-up of Tory MPs Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell;…
What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?
It is easy to forget that, under a quirk of the UK legal system, if you want to get the…
The Fuad Awale case shows what’s wrong with the ECHR
Another new year, and another controversial human rights victory for a criminal. Fuad Awale was a violent thug and Islamist serving…
Is this finally the end of non-crime hate incidents?
Roll up for a Christmas surprise on the policing front. According to a leak from the College of Policing to…
The Church of England’s gay marriage row will rumble on
The Church of England’s House of Bishops met to discuss the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) project yesterday: that…
The worrying flaws in Lammy’s plan to cut jury trials
David Lammy clearly spotted that he had set the cat among the pigeons when his plans to cut back on…
There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice
David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder,…
Now Britain must quit the ECHR
Shabana Mahmood is a bright minister among a cabinet of duds, dealt a difficult hand and playing it rather well.…
More asylum hotel protests are inevitable
The Labour party will, one suspects, curse the name of Epping for some time. The uncomfortable fact is that it…
Who cares if the Huntingdon train hero is an immigrant?
When a maniac ran amok on a train near Huntingdon on Saturday, train steward Samir Zitouni put his life on…
The rise of anti-democratic human rights
Seventy-five years ago today the European Convention on Human Rights was signed in Rome by the 12 states, including Britain,…
Human rights scepticism is now mainstream
When Nigel Farage introduced a bill in the House of Commons requiring the UK to leave the ECHR (European Convention…
Non-crime hate incidents aren’t dead yet
The Met has announced that it will stop investigating non-crime hate incidents, or NCHIs. The pressure on other forces to…
Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row
The problems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the bureaucracy behind it aren’t limited to the spanners…
Badenoch’s ECHR pledge could be the start of a Tory revival
Kemi Badenoch’s announcement that the Conservatives are now irrevocably committed to pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights…
Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel
Labour is again running scared on migration. At the party’s conference yesterday, Shabana Mahmood made a clear pitch to middle Britain on the subject. ‘You may not…
Deploying the military won’t stop illegal migration
There was a grain or two of truth in what Donald Trump said last week about migration. A polity is…
Labour is in a migration trap of its own making
The failure to deport any illegal migrants at all on the first designated flight to France yesterday under the agreement…
